Recaps

Mark used his intelligence and growing wealth to build Alice, launch Stardew Valley, and protect Rosalie as they pursued her acting career in New York. After he uncovered the Blackfire Gang’s crimes and the gang targeted him for kidnapping, Mark and Rosalie faced an armed assault on the film set.

• Mark hacked Cathy Dale’s email and exposed her racist remarks, destroying her Hollywood career, then admitted to JARVIS that he was the hacker.
• Mark built Alice, created Stardew Valley, and earned enough from the game to fund new equipment and security.
• Rosalie won the role of Joanna Perry, and Mark and Rosalie traveled with the film crew to New York, where Mark’s sunlight gains soared during the flight.
• Mark spotted a possible sniper near the hotel, while the Blackfire Gang noticed him and planned to kidnap him for Mr. Epstein.
• Mark hired bodyguards for Rosalie and himself, then used Alice to send evidence of the gang’s crimes to the police, leading to multiple arrests.
• Rachel gave a suspicious man information about Rosalie and Mark’s security as the Blackfire Gang prepared to attack the film set.
• Extras rioted to distract the guards while gangsters stormed the set, but Mark fired his modified Electric Shock Gun and knocked out five men approaching him.

After surviving gang attacks and protecting the Li sisters, Mark built his game company, traveled to upgrade his abilities, and saved Tony Stark from Lucas Kane. The arc ended with Mark revealing Li Qianhuan’s mutant powers to Rosalie and recognizing the danger they could pose.

• Mark escaped the Mutant’s kidnapping, then exposed Nisilei’s attempt to frame Rosalie and helped bring down the Blackfire Gang.
• Mark fortified the family home, hired Li Qianhuan, and helped defend the Westons and his own household from attacks by the Iron Blood Gang.
• Mark launched Myth of Heroes and Panda Chat, bought a game company, and flew around the world while collecting Sunlight Value.
• Mark uncovered the Latin Gang’s crimes, evaded S.H.I.E.L.D.’s hackers, and upgraded Super Brain and Super Physique.
• At a party, Lucas Kane went berserk after taking an experimental drug and attacked Tony Stark, but Mark knocked Lucas unconscious before he exploded.
• Mark learned that Aldrich Killian had supplied the drug that killed Lucas, then returned home and explained mutants to Rosalie.
• Li Qianhuan demonstrated her plasma ability, and Mark tested its heat against his hand.

Mark took control of Future Pharmaceuticals, acquired the Dragon Bone Fragment, and built a team while battling the Hand and Trask Industries. The arc ended with Future Pharmaceuticals’ controversial human trial curing eighteen patients, including Daphne’s mother, while two volunteers died.

• Mark bought a controlling stake in Advanced Idea Mechanics, recruited Killian and Maya to focus on medical uses of Extremis, and forced Killian to abandon his secret laboratory.
• Mark returned to Los Angeles after the Latin Gang attacked his home, where Li Qianhuan revealed her Mutant power and Mark killed Joe Morgan after learning the Hand wanted a bone fragment.
• Mark and Li Qianhuan opened her father’s safe deposit box and found the Dragon Bone Fragment, which she gave to Mark for protection and help avenging her parents.
• Trask Industries sent Mutant Clone N-5 to steal Extremis research, but Alice exposed the break-in and the intruder died before Trask could recover all the data.
• Mark helped Ian, Olive, and Harumi Cangtian escape Trask Industries, then proved he and Li Qianhuan were Mutants and offered the trio jobs.
• At the Bern summit, Tony Stark met Maya and Killian, examined Extremis, and identified its flaw before learning that Mark had funded their company.
• Mark arranged for Future Pharmaceuticals to treat Daphne’s mother, and Killian began a human trial with twenty terminally ill volunteers.
• Future Pharmaceuticals announced that eighteen patients had recovered and two had died, while reporters crowded the survivors and their relatives.

Mark built Payne Group, strengthened his powers, and intervened in a series of crises, from rescuing Lina in Thailand to destroying Eric Epstein’s human-trafficking operation. He recruited Wanda and Pietro after saving them in Sokovia and brought them, along with Dalia, to Payne Manor.

• Tony Stark publicly allied Stark Group with Future Pharmaceuticals, while Mark brought Ian, Olive, and Harumi Cangtian into company security and helped them rescue Killian from X-8 and his attackers.
• Mark formed Payne Group, expanded Future Pharmaceuticals’ costly treatment program, and became the subject of a media leak that revealed his identity and past.
• Mark upgraded Super Physique, rescued Lina from kidnappers in Thailand, and brought her to Los Angeles, where he raised his force field and built a glider.
• Mark used the glider to rescue 258 people from a burning skyscraper, earning the name “Wind Rider” and drawing interest from S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, and Trask Industries.
• Mark upgraded his force field and Heat Vision, then raided James Island, freed three victims, killed Eric Epstein and the others involved, and took Eric’s records and valuables.
• Mark flew to Sokovia, killed soldiers attacking civilians, and met Wanda, Pietro, and the orphaned Dalia, and he offered to help Wanda and Pietro awaken their powers in exchange for working for him.
• Mark destroyed the forces of Kiran Valen and Felch Hart, then took Wanda, Pietro, and Dalia to Payne Manor, where Curtis reported that three thieves had tried to rob Payne Bank.